I've been listening to Truth Driven Thinking's podcasts over the last two days while I've been recovering from a nasty visit from the flu (or whatever it is that is making me puke). Truth Driven Thinking is an intelligent interview based podcast dedicated to skeptical thinking. It's a refreshing break of NPR.
I've listened to three so far:
- Skepticism for the Unworthy - with Jody Wheeler
- Dr. Michael Shermer - Why Darwin Matters:
- The "Obesity Myth" - Paul Campos
All three are interesting explorations of the guest and his potions. I found Jody Wheeler to be particularly compelling. He seemed like such a ordinary guy and just as unworthy as I am. I added his blog to my blogroll.
Truth Driven Thinking is available on iTunes. There are 22 episodes. I plan to listen to every one.
On another note - the website for Truth Driven Thinking is well... lame. The design aesthetic needs a little help. It looks so... 90s. The site could benefit from a real blog. What he calls a blog is technically more like a static web page (like the rest of his site). The overall lameness for Truth Driven Thinking is offset by his mission.
The broader mission of Stephen Gibson's Truth-Driven ThinkingSM effort is to encourage intellectual honesty in contemporary dialogue by revealing the prevalence of human tendencies toward emotion-driven thinking, the hidden costs of acting upon the flawed assumptions that can result, and by illustrating that science, reason and evidence-based action are the best path to optimizing the “greater good” for all.
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Sweet tities! I'll be adding this to my google reader.
So much back catalogue listen to do. I hope the episode are shorter that the Non-Prophets 1.5 hour marathons.
So glad I work a desk job that lets me get in around 6 hours of podcasts a day.
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